NO. Mil. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERIIOLSER. V)25 



SIGMODUS RETZII GRACULINUS (Cabanis). 



Prionops graculinus Cabanis, Journ. f. Ornith., 1868, p. 412, pi. iii (Mombasa, 

 British East Africa). 



One specimen from Kahe, south of Mount Kilimanjaro, taken Sep- 

 tember 5, 1888. It has a slight indication of a white bar on the under 

 side of the wing, but this is confined to small areas on the edges of the 

 inner webs of some of the primaries; and there seems to be no doubt 

 of the correctness of the above identification. 



Family ZOSTEROPID^E. 



ZOSTEROPS SENEGALENSIS FLAVILATERALIS (Reichenowj. 



Zosk'wps favilateralis Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1892, pp. 192, 193 (East 

 Africa). 



Four specimens, from Taveta, and from Mount Kilimanjaro at 5,0()0 

 feet, belong to this form of Zoste7'oj)S senegalensis. Captain Shelley is 

 probably wrong in citing'* flavilateralis as a synonym of Zosterops 

 pallescen-s Heuglin^ { = Zostero2)s KeiujUni Hartlaub'), for the latter is 

 much more probably the same as Z. stuJdmanni Reichenow '' or Z. 

 xupercillosa Reichenow,* if indeed the last two are not also identical. 



ZOSTEROPS EURYCRICOTA Fischer and Reichenow. 



Zosterops eurycricotus Fischer and Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1884, p. 55 

 (base of Meru Mountains, Great Aruscha, Masai Land, German East Africa). 



Zosterops perspirilhita Shelley, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889 p. 366, pi. xli, fig. 

 1 (Mount Kilimanjaro). 



Eight specimens, all from Mount Kilimanjaro, at altitudes of 5,000, 

 6,000, and 10,000 feet. With the exception of the type, two specimens 

 in the British Museum, and two recorded from Mount Kilimanjaro by 

 Neumann,'' these appear to be the only ones of this rare species known. 

 They generally agree very closel}- with published descriptions, but in 

 one bird, taken at 10,000 feet in April, the forehead is almost as yellow 

 as the throat, though darker, and the under parts are somewhat lighter 

 yellow than in any of the rest of our series, while the upper surface 

 has more of an olive tinge. The j^ellowish forehead can hardly be 

 considered sufficient for the reference of this bird to Zost€7'ops stuhl- 

 manni^^J because other individuals are intermediate in this respect. 



« Birds of Africa, II, 1900, p. 176. 

 ''Journ. f. Ornith., 1864, p. 260 (Bongo). 

 '•Idem, 1865, p. 11 (Bongo). 



''Idem, 1892, p. 54 (Bukoba, German East Africa). 

 'Idem, 1892, p. 193 (Wadelai, British Equatorial Africa). 

 ./'Idem, 1900, p. 295. 



!/ Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1892, p. 192 (Bukoba, German East Africa). 

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